Schneider (Amstrad) CPC 464 - back then it was either that or C64, two entirely separate circles of people it seemed ! When I see others of that era or earlier, like that BBC one, I find myself thinking damn I've never sat at one of these. Was magic for us kids back then.

The story of ARM is one of those come from behind victories nobody saw coming. I remember hearing about ARM two decades back because I was a geek interested in what was running my favorite arcade games and PDAs and printers. You would see ARM pop up on spec sheets here and there.

Now it's the most numerous form of SOC on the planet. Even Intel is trying to figure out how to keep their market from dwindling to ever smaller proportions.

Loved the nostalgic article. I'm from the States so never used one of these Micros myself. I had an Atari 800 during that era and later went Amiga as you did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q

Commodore Vic20 on which we wrote programs in basic, but the school had computers too, so I also did some Comal80-programming. goto - gosub. I understand how programming works and have done some PHP -coding whenever I have needed a website (like the very clever Phill-site). I would like to do some more, but the lack of time and an obvious project has held me back. When I do I think that it will be in Python... maybe doing some scripting for <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender?</a>

Apple //e on with I produced an Apple User Group Newsletter for a couple of years until the Lisa arrived on the scene.  It was a great time to play with computers.  BBC, Commodore 64, TRS-80 (Trash 80), etc all fun.

My first computer was a TSR 80. Bought it used in the late 80's. You could program it in Basic and I wrote a couple real simple (basic) LOL programs with it to store phone numbers, and keep track of finances. I didn't use it a lot. 

Then in the early 90's I was shopping with my now x-wife and stopped in an electronics store while she shopped and was looking at a Leading Edge with Windows 3.11 and ended up buying it. 

Taken from a wiki:
In 1994, Leading Edge offered the Wintower 486 Multimedia PC, with 66 MHz processor, 8 meg ram, 340 meg hard drive, 2 floppies, CD ROM, modem, sound card and monitor for a "street price" of $2600. It came loaded with Windows 3.11, Windows For Workgroups. 

![](http://i.imgur.com/kH6gWsJ.png)
I downloaded this image a long time ago. This isn't mine but it was the exact same P.C. Have no idea where the image came from. 

It had a screaming 14.4 modem... The internet was so fun back then though. Then I upgraded to a 56.6 modem and I was the envy of all the neighborhood geeks. LOL. Good times.